We put our savings together and made a decent down payment on the acreage, but that still left us with a sizable mortgage.We were able to make a modes... living for the first few years with my teaching income and our fairly good success on the farm, but in 2011 we had a bad year with our crops, and I had taken an extended unpaid leave from teaching. That’s because we had a baby, and I stayed home with our son who was six months old, and the school had already replaced me.It was a blessing that Ed. I noted a curtained alcove, which I took to be the captain’s sleeping berth. There were surprising touches of a woman’s hand in the décor of the cabin, such as tastefully arranged cushions, with a definite scent of attar of roses on the drapery concealing the captain’s bed.Hands was a large, imposing, man of some sixty years of age, his weather-beaten complexion testifying he had spent most of those years at sea. In fact he had first visited India when a ten year- old cabin boy.“In them days,”. It was Bobbie. Several wolf whistles announced the men’s approval of Wendy’s sensual-looking figure.“Hey sweetie pie, you should be on stage too so we can see that sexy looking body naked!” One yelled, with others agreeing. Wendy smiled at them as they walked towards the dance room.“Hi Dan,” he heard a soft voice to his left. He turned to the source of his name and noticed Bobbie’s captivating smile.“Hi Bobbie.”“You know her?” Wendy asked about their first name knowledge.“She’s the stripper Ben. She toyed with the idea of calling Kate, even going so far as to fetch the home phone list the firm published, but fear stopped her. She was afraid that she would be unable to control herself, and that Kate would be disgusted with the knowledge that her coworker was a dyke. The only thing left was to get drunk. Unfortunately, she had no liquor in the apartment. She had just smashed the only bottle. With no alternative, she headed out the door and down the street, toward the liquor store. The.